Assessing Scripting Languages
Project Overview
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Scripting languages are becoming increasingly popular both in
industry as well as academia. Scripting languages are claimed to be
easier to learn and faster in development. Traditional programming
languages, by contrast, impose greater syntactic burdens on the
programmer in an effort to produce high-performance code that
results in robust programs.
Our research seeks to assess the tradeoffs between lightweight
interpreted scripting languages and more traditional compiled programming
languages. We are primarily interested in examining a number of
questions including the ideas that
- programmers are more efficient when using scripting languages,
- large software projects implemented in scripting languages will
incur a greater number of uncaught programing errors, and
- scripting languages provide a better alternative to more complex
languages for introductory programming courses.
Sponsored By
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- George Fox University Faculty Research Development Grant
- George Fox University Richter Scholars Program
Participants
Professor David M. Hansen
Principal Investigator
Professor Brent Wilson
Co-Principal Investigator
Matt Hartzell
Research Assistant
Project Resources
Faculty Research Grant Proposal
Matt Hartzell's Richter Scholar Propoasl
Publications and Presentations
- Matt Hartzell and David M. Hansen.
- Assessing the Proposed Efficiency of Scripting Languages over
Traditional Programming Languages.
Poster presented at the Pacific Northwest Conference of the
Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC), Salem, OR,
October 2004.
